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Short, accessible audio essays at the intersection of philosophy and technology and lots of other stuff, too. chapainsights.substack.com

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5:39

Shame and Redemption

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2025/07/24

I don’t want to write about the Coldplay concert. Everyone involved is, no doubt, now entering a very difficult time relationally, emotionally, and professionally.So, I’m going to write about something else.When I was somewhere between the ages of eight and eleven, my sister, some friends, and I rode our bikes to the Wegmans in Henrietta, New York. This was a big deal because we had to cross a highway to get there... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or

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8:22

Slow Down to Speed Up

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2025/07/17

First things first: this newsletter is a labor of love and sometimes, producing the text, the audio, and the sketch is a lot to accomplish each week. This week, I almost didn’t get it done. So I did what any normal person would do in 2025, I turned to ChatGPT. I fed the model about a dozen of my sketches and then asked it to produce an image of an aircraft clock in the style of my own charcoal sketches. It did a good job. It did a great job, actually. Well, fortunately for you (and for my integrity

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6:55

The Cost of Instant Knowledge

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2025/07/10

Pete Holmes has a great bit about how having Google on our phones is ruining our lives. “Having Google on your phone is like having a drunk know-it-all in your pocket.” You can watch the clip here (start at about a minute into the clip).I’ve literally been in bed in the morning alone, just like, “where’s Tom Petty from?”Then he mimes asking Google that question on his phone. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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9:22

Blade Runner

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2025/07/03

I watched Blade Runner for the first time last weekend. (The movie came out before I was born, so I feel like I should get a little bit of a pass on not having seen it).The film plays with some of the themes we’ve seen in more recent sci fi, AI, and robot movies. I’m thinking specifically of Ex Machina. If forced to bin both films in the same category, I’d say these are two movies that take seriously the question, what if robots did have emotions?One of the things I appreciated about Blade Runner is

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6:31

Driving a Stick in the Age of AI

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2025/06/26

In the Venn diagram of TV shows that appeal to me and my wife and to our two kids, the middle overlapping part is pretty sparse. But The Amazing Race is one of those shows. American teams of two compete for $1,000,000 in a race around the world. Each episode consists of frantic travel, challenges to accomplish, communication in a language not one’s own, and lots of stress-induced relationship drama.This show is in its 37th season—thirty seven seasons—and yet, there are still contestants on this show

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6:29

Philosophy is Bigger Than AI

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2025/06/19

Plato, one of the world’s earliest (and still one of the world’s greatest) philosophers struggled with the question, “who is the philosopher.” He wrote a trio of dialogues (The Theaetetus, The Sophist, and The Statesman) that sought to distinguish the philosopher from the sophist and both from the statesman. It’s harder than you think!This is because, perhaps among other reasons, the subject matter that philosophy takes on cannot be conveniently categorized into other disciplines.Here are some

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7:27

AI is Magic... Sort of

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2025/06/12

“Magic doesn’t fool you because you’re stupid,” Penn Jillette said on the Jonathan Ross show in 2019.Magic fools you because it’s stupid. … The human brain wants to have beautiful, wonderful experiences. So, if you want to fool somebody, you come up with something really, really stupid.Jillette then brough comedian Rebel Wilson onto the stage and through misdirection and sleight of hand, managed to perform an illusion that was transparent to everyone in the room and even to everyone at home, but not

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7:51

Authenticity and Truth

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2025/06/05

Some time ago, I listened to Lulu Garcia Navarro interview Megyn Kelly on the New York Times “The Interview” podcast. If you’re not familiar with Megyn Kelly, she was a long-time Fox News host until she had a dust-up both with then-candidate Trump and ultimately with the Fox organization. Now she is an ardent supporter of the President—she even endorsed him on stage at a rally prior to the election—as she hosts her YouTube show.I don’t know Kelly’s work well and this is not really a post about

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9:11

Anxiety and Joe Chapa Problems

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2025/05/29

A friend recommended that I watch the Netflix documentary series, Live to 100: The Secrets of Blue Zones. Throughout the series, the host brings viewers to communities around the world that have a disproportionately high number of centenarians—people who have lived to be 100. Then he seeks to discover what it is about those people and their lifestyles that have enabled their longevity.In most places in the world, women outlive men. Even in most of the communities with more than their share of

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6:23

AI Requires a Human Touch

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2025/05/22

I want to share something I read at work this week. There had been an email exchange about the degree to which AI will enable us to automate our work. I work at a professional military education institution, so our work includes both graduate level academic instruction and military professional education. Here’s what my colleague had to say in response to someone else.You are missing the human element - AI may be able to do a lot of things I do, but I would argue it can’t counsel a student who lost

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8:48

AI and the White Cliffs of Dover

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2025/05/15

In order to understand new things, sometimes we need to study old things.I never really understood what my Army and Marine Corps friends meant by “strategic terrain.” As an Air Force officer, I have studied battles that took place at thirty thousand feet and bombing campaigns that, several miles into the atmosphere, overflew hundreds or thousands of miles of terrain, strategic or otherwise. We talked about strategic effects, but we didn’t talk about strategic terrain.But then I visited Dover Castle

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7:20

Lies, Eggsplosions, and LLMs

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2025/05/08

Can large language models lie to us? This is a harder question to answer than it seems. So, let’s start in the most obvious place: Disney’s 2013 film, Frozen.Thirteen mid-career military officers, half of them US Marines, met in a classroom inside the National Museum of The Marine Corps in Quantico, VA. About an hour into the two hour class, we took a ten minute break. I said, “when we come back, we’re going to watch some Frozen.”I queued up the scene from the movie and when the students returned

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14:24

Philosophy, War, and Folk Music

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2025/05/01

I know this isn’t the kind of content you originally signed up for, but I thought this story was strong enough to share anyway. As always, I’d love to hear what you think. Please consider leaving a note in the comments.The folk singer, Ellis Paul, took off his flat cap and, with a flick of his wrist, hung it from the boom of his mic stand. He told listeners in the intimate, Northern Virginia venue about the first time he played the famous Blue Bird Café in Nashville.“It was 1992 and I had a mullet,”

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11:24

AI in WarGames

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2025/04/24

I’ve been trying to introduce my kids to classic movies that I don’t think they’ll get exposed to anywhere else. (And yes, at this point, I consider the movies of my own childhood to be “classic”). This week, we watched WarGames.It holds up!Views Expressed is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.If you’re not familiar with the film, a young Matthew Broderick plays David Lightman, a high school student with an affinity

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14:07

A Visual History of AI

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2025/04/17

Somehow, back in 2017, I found myself at a small workshop on the ethics autonomous robotic systems at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. (If you are interested, that series of workshops culminated in this report on how to evaluate the risk of robots in the security context). At that early workshop, though, I was an AI novice. I had been invited because I had an operational background in remotely piloted aircraft, not because I knew anything about AI.So, there I was, sitting across the table

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11:27

Art imitates life. AI imitates art.

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2025/04/03

This newsletter is a little different. I’m going to engage in some art criticism (the positive kind) even though I am not an artist. But I know there are some artists who read the newsletter. So, by all means, comment and let me know what I’ve gotten wrong or if there are better ways for us to think about this issue. I’d love to hear from you! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chapainsights.substack.com/subscribe

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11:00

Meta owes me $453 dollars

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2025/03/27

Alex Risner reported in The Atlantic last week that Meta (and possibly OpenAI) have attempted to address this problem by going to the source of good writing: books.There are lots of reasons that the quality of writing in books might be higher than the quality of writing available on the internet (including, perhaps, this very newsletter). Here are just a few... This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

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7:33

AI and The Beautiful People

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2025/03/20

My sister is opening a gym. She did what anyone might do in our age of generative AI, she asked Midjourney to generate marketing materials.The task was specific. She’s not trying to create a gym for professional athletes or for gym rats; her target market is made up of ordinary people, many of whom will never have been into a gym before.But getting generative AI to create images of normal people is harder than it sounds.I mean, I’ll just come out and say it: These people are all just too dang sexy

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14:50

Intro to Ethics

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2025/03/13

A reader recently asked me to recommend an intro to ethics book that covered the major ethical theories. That’s harder to do than it sounds. There are several books that engage the three major philosophical approaches to ethics, but few that do it in a way that’s approachable and accessible to those without an extensive philosophy background.Similarly, I recently had to find a chapter that introduces the major ethical theories for the Marine Command and Staff College. The best single chapter I’ve

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8:36

AI and the Future of Work

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2025/03/06

Greetings from Oxford, where the spires are still just as dreamy as when I last left them. This really is a special place. (And a special shoutout to the buck of the famed Magdalen College deer herd who tried to eat my wife’s wedding ring).The Views Expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the US Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any part of the US Government. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

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